Everyday fashion essentials for Cambridge life
Eleanor Costello and Emma Ansell outline the essentials for your Cambridge wardrobe
T-Shirts:
1. A freshers’ pub crawl t-shirt to remind everyone that you were once young, cool, and hip, and danced the night away - even though you’re now a third year that never goes out and cries yourself to sleep.
2. A slightly too tight t-shirt with a gym slogan on it such as ‘I put the leg day in legendary’ or ‘muscles loading’ to make sure that everyone knows that you do in fact go to the gym (even if you don’t).
3. A University of Cambridge T-Shirt to let all your peers and everyone else know that you belong here
Underwear:
4. Really comfortable underwear for the days when you’re not going to leave your room.
5. Really sexy underwear for the days when you don’t want to come back to your room.
6. Hideous unsightly underwear for when you’re on your period and may or may not want to leave your room.
Bags:
7. A no-nonsense, can’t-slow-me-down, cycling-at-the-speed-of-light, on-my-way-to-lectures backpack.
8. A little clutch that you can barely fit your phone/money/makeup inside, so that when you hit the club you can wave your arms in the air like you just don’t care.
9. A plastic carrier bag TO BE KEPT ON YOU AT ALL TIMES because 5p is an outrageously high price.
Dresses:
10. A classy and respectable dress that proves to your DoS the sauve and sophisticated person you are.
11. A silken floorlength dress from when you are alone in your room and listen to XO by Beyonce and realise you (rightfully) love yourself.
12. A little black dress for when you have lots of dinner parties to go to and can’t afford or even be bothered to buy lots of different outfits.
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